One Possible Future
Copyright © September 11, 2021 by Robert Wayne Atkins, P.E.
All Rights Reserved.
Introduction
President Biden's speech on September 9, 2021 has resulted in redirecting almost everyone's attention away from the really important issues onto the issue of the "unvaccinated" as defined by President Biden in his speech.
In other words, there is no longer any reason to consider the fate of the American citizens who were abandoned in Afghanistan, or on the Federal Debt the government will soon be forced to default on, or on the collapse of the Social Security System due to its mismanagement for the past 80 years, or on the supply chain shortages that are rapidly becoming obvious to most people.
This article will not discuss the "unvaccinated" because at this time the "unvaccinated" are being discussed everywhere on the internet.
Instead this article will briefly examine each of the above four currently insignificant issues.
- Withdrawal from Afghanistan: The first issue is the number of American citizens who were left behind in Afghanistan. By American citizens I mean people who had valid U.S.A. passports issued by the U.S. government. Although the media would have us believe that only a dozen or so American citizens were left behind in Afghanistan, the true number may be significantly more than this. But by changing the focus of the American people to the "unvaccinated" this issue is no longer being investigated and it will not take very long before the real facts are buried forever. And by buried forever I am implying the execution and burial of those American citizens in unmarked graves in Afghanistan. A second issue is the billions of dollars of military hardware that was left behind. In my humble opinion, the abandonment of the military hardware is not as important as the abandonment of American citizens. The simple reason is that the U.S. government always does this at the conclusion of their "peace keeping" invasions of other countries. The equipment that was originally transferred to these other countries to help with "keeping the peace" already had a "little age" on it and by the time of the "withdrawal" most of the equipment was costing more to maintain than it was worth. And in many cases replacement parts may not have been available. In other words, even though the abandoned equipment may have had an inflated book value, most of it was probably not working correctly and it was not worth repairing. Please permit me to use the following simple analogy of a used car. Assume a person owns a used car that has a current market value of $1,000 if it is still working, but the person has just been told that it is going to cost $1,800 to get it fixed so that it work for a few more months. Most people would send the car to the junkyard and replace it with something they could afford that had a longer life expectancy. This is what our government always does when they withdraw from a country. They leave their "used equipment" behind and then petition congress for money to build all new equipment. In summary, the abandoned military equipment will probably be replaced with new equipment but the lives of our fellow American citizens can never be replaced. However, as long as people focus most of their attention on the "unvaccinated" then these abandoned people will be quickly forgotten and the government will never have to answer any questions about why they abandoned some of their citizens in Afghanistan.
- Federal Debt: The U.S.A. will never be able to repay all the money it has borrowed over the past 80 years. At the current time the government cannot afford to pay the annual interest on its debt. This is one of the reasons the interest rate is almost zero in the U.S.A. And in some countries the interest rate is actually negative. The creditors, or the Federal Reserve Bank, does not want the government to default on its debt so they have reduced the interest rate to almost nothing. And some nations have reduced the interest rate to a negative number to assist in the gradual reduction of the debt using negative interest payments. Please permit me to use a simple analogy of an ordinary person. Assume that a person earns $50,000 per year, and their minimum sustenance-level living expenses are $15,000 per year, and the person has borrowed so much money that their annual interest payments are $55,000 per year (interest only and no reduction in the total amount owed). This person cannot survive unless they borrow more money each year, or if they declare bankruptcy. The government of the U.S.A. is in this position and it may be forced to declare bankruptcy in the very near future. Fortunately, the government has just created a "scapegoat" and they can now blame their financial mismanagement problems of the last 80 years on the "unvaccinated." As a side note it should be mentioned that the bankruptcy of the U.S.A. will effectively destroy the Federal Reserve Bank but not the U.S.A. The reason is because the Federal Reserve Bank is not a government organization. Instead the Federal Reserve Bank is owned by private investors, and the money created by the Federal Reserve Bank is not based on silver or gold assets. The money is based on nothing except the "faith" that people have in the money the Federal Reserve Bank creates out of nothing.
- Social Security: The government of the U.S.A. does not require itself to manage the Social Security retirement accounts of its citizens using the same guidelines that it requires every other organization to use in the management of the retirement money of its members. The U.S. government has been spending the money paid into Social Security each year in two ways:
- Payments to retired people.
- Anything else the government wants to spend the money on.
As long as there was more money being paid into Social Security each year than the amount of money that was being paid out to retired people each year, then there was money left over each year to spend on anything the government wanted to spend it on. However, this surplus is quickly coming to an end. In other words, the amount of money being paid into Social Security each year will soon be less than the amount of money the U.S. government has promised to pay to its retired people each year. When this happens then one of three things will happen.
- The government will reduce the monthly retirement checks of its retired people and for many retired people this means they will starve to death.
- The government will increase the Social Security tax rate on the people who are still working and who are not retired.
- The government will do both of the above.
The government knows that any of the above options would result in the political death of the political party that was currently in power. Fortunately, the government has just created a "scapegoat" and they can now blame their financial mismanagement problems of the Social Security System for the last 80 years on the "unvaccinated" and they can claim that the "unvaccinated" are overwhelming the Social Security System and the "unvaccinated" should be blamed and not the Federal government. As a side note, if the managers of any other retirement organization did what the government of the U.S.A. did, then those managers would spend the rest of their lives in a Federal prison without any chance of a parole.
- Supply Chain Shortages: Most people have noticed that the shelves in most stores are not as well stocked as they used to be. There are bare spaces on some shelves, and entire shelves in some stores are empty. Some stores are ingenuously disguising these shortages by spreading out the products they have for sale over a larger area on the shelf to hide the fact that some products are no longer available. And many stores are moving products to the front of the shelves and if you remove the item from the front of the shelf then you will notice that you just bought the last one the store had. In the middle of August of 2021, my wife visited a local Kroger grocery store and she was shocked to see almost all of their shelves were empty. She asked a Kroger employee about the empty shelves and the employee told her that they had not had a truck delivery of anything for several days. In my opinion, these shortages are going to become a lot worse and conditions will be soon be similar to what we experienced when the CV-19 epidemic first became widespread in the early part of the year 2020. Fortunately, the government has just created a "scapegoat" and they can now blame all of the current supply chain shortages on the "unvaccinated." As a side note, these shortages may quickly become catastrophic if a huge number of people decide to simply quit their jobs instead of getting vaccinated and this may be one the primary objectives of the new presidential vaccination mandate. It is relatively easy to force a starving person who is in a weakened physical and mental condition to do anything you demand.
Discussion
Our government leaders know that a "day of reckoning" will soon be at hand. And in a last ditch desperate effort to redirect the attention of the American people away from the really important issues, President Biden has intentionally and deliberately created a new problem that approximately half of the citizens of the U.S.A. will have to deal with in one way or another because it affects them personally, or it affects someone in their immediate family.
President Biden has demanded that all U.S. citizens get vaccinated, or they must get tested every week to verify they don't have the virus. In his speech he stated that this was going to begin will all federal government employees. But the first thing he did was to exempt the employees of the federal United States Postal System. But that is okay because he just accidentally "misspoke" and he always intended to except some federal government employees.
The mandate only applies to American citizens. The millions upon millions of illegal aliens in the U.S.A. do not have to get vaccinated, they do not have to get tested, and they will continue to receive free medical care and welfare benefits. But that's okay because these millions upon millions of starving illegal aliens who are in extremely poor health and who have been relocated by the U.S. government into every state in the U.S.A. will in no way endanger the health of any American citizen, and these illegal aliens will not contribute to the spread of the virus as long as every American citizen is vaccinated or tested every week.
Several of the states in the U.S.A. have already declared that they are going to legally challenge this new Presidential mandate in a court of law. Whether or not any of these states will be successful will depend on who controls their court systems and whether or not the courts will uphold the Constitution of the U.S.A. or if they will temporarily or permanently suspend the Constitution.
Fortunately there are still two legal ways that an "unvaccinated" person can remain "unvaccinated."
1. Test yourself at home every week. Who will pay for this "home testing" is still being debated.
2. File an official "religious exemption form" with your employer or school using your employer's or school's official "religious exemption form."
However, the government may decide to eliminate one of both of the above options if they believe it will cause more "political resentment" against our current government leaders.
Conclusion
The clock is ticking.
Regardless of how President Biden's mandate gradually unfolds, the collapse of the economy in the U.S.A. and throughout most of the world is inevitable. And in my opinion, it will probably happen at lot sooner than most people expect. And most people will be totally unprepared for it because they will have invested most of their attention focusing on the issue of the "unvaccinated." In other words, most people will fall into the trap that has been laid for them. Hopefully you will not be one of those people.
May I humbly suggest that you stop investing your time focusing on the "unvaccinated" proclamation of President Biden. Instead may I suggest that you invest your time acquiring enough long-term storage food to help your family survive during whatever may happen in the near future. You may also wish to consider buying some "heirloom" garden seeds using the internet and storing those seeds in your refrigerator. If you grow your own food, or hunt or fish, or harvest edible wild plants then you should also learn how to correctly store this type of food so that it remains edible for as long as possible.
May I also suggest that you have some way to defend yourself, such as acquiring a semi-automatic firearm, and that you acquire at least 1,000 rounds of ammunition for that firearm. Please do not use any weapon to attack another person for any reason. The only time you should use a weapon against a person is for your own personal self-defense from someone who is attacking you, or to defend your family from someone who is attacking them. Another valid use of a semi-automatic rifle is hunting wild game animals the way your ancestors did.
May God Bless,
Grandpappy.
Grandpappy's e-mail address is: RobertWayneAtkins@hotmail.com